Human Rights Events

Human Rights in Practice events sponsored by Duke Law's International Human Rights Clinic and the Center for International and Comparative Law


Upcoming Human Rights in Practice events

  • Duke Law's Human Rights in Practice Speaker Series - Fall Semester 2021

    Human Rights in Practice Speaker Series - Fall Semester 2021

    The Human Rights in Practice speaker series presents discussions with noted practitioners on a wide range of current human rights issues. These events are organized by the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic.

  • Duke Law Post-Graduate Fellowship in Public International Law and International Human Rights 2022-2023

    Applications Open

    Deadline for submitting an application:
    Friday, January 14, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. (ET)

Past Human Rights in Practice events

 

2021

2022 Salzburg Global Seminar / Lloyd N. Cutler Fellows in International Law

Career Session for International Human Rights with Karen Musalo; 09 November 2021; 1:30 p.m.; Law Room 4042

Career Session for International Human Rights with Karen Musalo

The Asylum Whirlwind: Where Are We Now? A conversation with Karen Musalo, founding director of the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies at U.C. Hastings College of Law | Nov. 09, 2022, 12:30 p.m. Law Room 3037 or Virtual

The Asylum Whirlwind: Where Are We Now?

Career Session for International Human Rights with Dreisen Heath; 26 October, 12:30 p.m.; Law Room 3210

Career Session for International Human Rights with Dreisen Heath

Human Rights in Practice: Families and National Security, with Fatima Ahdash, Fionnuala Ni Aolain, & Jayne Huckerby | 25 October 2021, 12:30 p.m. | Law Room 4047 | or via livestream

Human Rights in Practice: Families and National Security

Career Session for International Human Rights with Yuvraj Joshi; 13 October 2021; 12:30 p.m.; Law Room 3210

Career Session for International Human Rights with Yuvraj Joshi

Human Rights in Practice: Poverty, Movement Building, and the Protection of Civic Space, with Kate Barth (ICNL) and Domingo Lovera-Parmo (UDP) | Tues. Sept. 28, 12:30 p.m., Law Room 3037

Human Rights in Practice: Poverty, Movement Building, and the Protection of Civic Space

Race & Reparations in the United States and Beyond, with Kaaren Haldeman, Dreisen Heath, Yuvraj Joshi, Virginie Ladisch, Jayne Huckerby; Thursday, 16 September, 12:30-1:15 p.m.

Race & Reparations in the United States and Beyond

Career Session for International Human Rights with Virginie Ladisch | September 16, 2021 | 1:30 p.m. | Law Library Room 3210 (Flexible Learning Space)

Career Session for International Human Rights with Virginie Ladisch

Career Sessions for International Human Rights -- 12 April: Joey Lee

April 12: Career Session with Joey Lee

Career Sessions for International Human Rights -- 26 March: Jaime Todd-Gher

March 26: Career Session with Jaime Todd-Gher

Equity of Access to Healthcare in the Global South

Equity of Access to Healthcare in the Global South

Human Rights in Practice: Food Insecurity, Climate Change, and Human Rights; Monday, March 15 at 12:30 p.m.; Virtual

Food Insecurity, Climate Change, and Human Rights

Career Sessions for International Human Rights -- 08 March: Siham Nurhussein

March 8: Career Session with Siham Nurhussein

Human Rights in Practice: Voting Security Issues, including Cyber Interference in Elections; 01 March 2021 at 12:30 p.m.; Virtual

Voting Security Issues, including Cyber Interference in Elections

Human Rights in Practice -- Human Rights and the COVID Vaccine: Distribution and Access; Monday, February 15, 2021; 12:30-1:30 p.m.; Virtual

Human Rights and the COVID Vaccine: Distribution and Access

2020

Human Rights in Practice -- Torture Victim Protection Act Litigation; Monday, October 26, 2020, at 12:30 p.m.; Virtual

Torture Victim Protection Act Litigation

Human Rights in Practice -- Access to Health Care in Prisons during the Pandemic; Tuesday, October 13, 2020, at 12:30 p.m.; Virtual

Access to Health Care in Prisons during the Pandemic

Human Rights in Practice -- Digital Rights and Discrimination; Monday, September 28, 2020, at 12:30 p.m.; Virtual

Digital Rights and Discrimination

International Aspects and Impacts of the Black Lives Matter Movement [Virtual Event]; Tuesday, September 15, 12:30 p.m.

International Aspects and Impacts of the Black Lives Matter Movement [Virtual Event]

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19: Advancing Rights and Justice During a Pandemic -- COVID-19 and the Human Rights of LGBTI People; May 19, 2020 at 12:10 p.m.

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19 and the Human Rights of LGBTI People

VIRTUAL -- Rethinking Essential: Business, Work, and Human Rights in the Covid-19 Pandemic | Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 12:10 p.m.

VIRTUAL -- Rethinking Essential: Business, Work, and Human Rights in the Covid-19 Pandemic

VIRTUAL -- Education Rebound for all During and After COVID-19: Charting the Way Forward | May 13, 2020 at 12:10 p.m.

VIRTUAL -- Education Rebound for all During and After COVID-19: Charting the Way Forward

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19: Advancing Rights and Justice During a Pandemic -- COVID-19 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19: Advancing Rights and Justice During a Pandemic -- The Deployment of COVID-19 to Undermine Sexual and Reproductive Health

VIRTUAL -- The Deployment of COVID-19 to Undermine Sexual and Reproductive Health

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19: Advancing Rights and Justice During a Pandemic -- COVID-19 and Mental Health: Wellbeing and Resilience During the Pandemic

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19 and Mental Health: Wellbeing and Resilience During the Pandemic

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19: Advancing Rights and Justice During a Pandemic -- Movements, Organizing, and Empowerment in the Time of COVID-19

VIRTUAL -- Movements, Organizing, and Empowerment in the Time of COVID-19

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19: Advancing Rights and Justice During a Pandemic -- COVID-19 and its Response: Risks to Refugees, Migrants, and Asylum-Seekers

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19 and its Response: Risks to Refugees, Migrants, and Asylum-Seekers

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19: Advancing Rights and Justice During a Pandemic -- COVID-19 in Conflict: What to Expect? And What Can be Done?

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19 in Conflict: What to Expect? And What Can be Done?

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19: Advancing Rights and Justice During a Pandemic -- Innovating Human Rights: Responsibility, Hope, and Strategy in Crisis

VIRTUAL -- Innovating Human Rights: Responsibility, Hope, and Strategy in Crisis

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19: Advancing Rights and Justice During a Pandemic -- Innovating Advocacy: Legal Approaches in a New [Pandemic] Terrain

VIRTUAL -- Innovating Advocacy: Legal Approaches in a New [Pandemic] Terrain

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19: Advancing Rights and Justice During a Pandemic -- Flattening the Pandemic Curve While Upholding Digital and Information Rights

VIRTUAL -- Flattening the Pandemic Curve While Upholding Digital and Information Rights

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19: Advancing Rights and Justice During a Pandemic -- COVID-19's Impact on Health, Housing, Water, and Sanitation: Socioeconomic Rights in Crisis

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19's Impact on Health, Housing, Water, and Sanitation: Socioeconomic Rights in Crisis

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19: Advancing Rights and Justice During a Pandemic -- Impacts of COVID-19 on Marginalized Groups: Implications for Policy and Advocacy

VIRTUAL -- Impacts of COVID-19 on Marginalized Groups: Implications for Policy and Advocacy

VIRTUAL -- COVID-19: Advancing Rights and Justice During a Pandemic -- States of Emergency and Government Powers in and After the Pandemic

VIRTUAL -- States of Emergency and Government Powers in and After the Pandemic

Human Rights in Practice -- Law and Social Movements: The Turn to Law Reform and Policy Platforms in Today's Left with Prof. Amna Akbar

Law and Social Movements: The Turn to Law Reform and Policy Platforms in Today's Left

Human rights in Practice -- Book Talk -- A Woman's Place: US Counterterrorism Since 9/11; with Dr. Joana Cook

Book Talk: “A Woman’s Place: U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11” by Dr. Joana Cook

Gender Dimensions of Business and Human Rights with Prof. Surya Deva

Gender Dimensions of Business and Human Rights

Human Rights in Practice -- The Right to Housing and Corporate Responsibility; with Prof. Surya Deva

The Right to Housing and Corporate Responsibility

Book Talk -- Gender, Alterity, and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl; with Prof. Ratna Kapur

Book Talk: “Gender, Alterity, and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl”

2019

Human Rights in Practice -- Invisible Threats: Addressing the Impact of New Technologies in Human Rights Practice, with Prof. Molly Land, Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 12:30 p.m., Law Room 4047

Invisible Threats: Addressing the Impact of New Technologies in Human Rights Practice

Human Rights in Practice: The Right to Health in Latin America, with Alicia Ely Yamin, JD MPH, on Wednesday, 30 October 2019, 12:30 p.m., in Room 3043 of Duke Law School

The Right to Health in Latin America

Guns and Domestic Violence: U.S. and International Human Rights Law Perspectives | Oct. 14, 2019 | 12:30 pm | Duke Law Room 3037

Guns and Domestic Violence: U.S. and International Human Rights Law Perspectives

The Human Right to a Healthy Environment with John Knox, Wake Forest University School of Law & former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human rights and the Environment; Tues. Sept. 17, 2019, at 12:30 p.m.; Duke Law Room 4045

The Human Right to a Healthy Environment

Modern-Day Debtors' Prisons, with Nusrat Choudhury, ACLU, on Wednesday, April 10, at 12:30 p.m. in Room 4045 of Duke Law School

Modern-Day Debtors' Prisons

Pillage of Natural Resources as a Restraint on the Use of Force, with Prof. James G. Stewart, March 27, 2019, at 12:30 p.m., Law School Room 4045

Pillage of Natural Resources as a Restraint on the Use of Force

The #MeToo Movement in Japan, with Kazuko Ito, Monday, March 18, at 12:30 p.m., in Room 4045 of Duke Law School

The #MeToo Movement in Japan

"The Destruction of Memory" [Film Screening and Discussion] with Tim Slade and Prof. Maurizio Forte, Wed. Feb. 13, 2019, at 5:30 p.m. in Room 3037 of Duke Law School

Film Screening and Discussion: The Destruction of Memory

Decriminalizing Homosexuality in India: Love, Law, and the Constitution; Jan. 30, 2019, 6 p.m., Duke Law School Room 3037

Decriminalizing Homosexuality in India: Love, Law, and the Constitution

2018

Aisling Reidy & Christine Ryan -- Ireland's Referendum Repealing the Abortion Ban, Nov. 14

Ireland's Referendum Repealing the Abortion Ban

Career Session with Aisling Reidy on Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Career Session with Aisling Reidy

Torture Flights: North Carolina's Role in the CIA's Rendition and Torture Program, Nov. 12

Torture Flights: North Carolina's Role in the CIA’s Rendition and Torture Program

Catherine Sweetser: Litigating Human Rights in the Federal Courts, Thursday, October 25, 12:30 p.m., Room 4045

Litigating Human Rights in the Federal Courts

Career Session with Catherine Sweetser on October 25 at 1:40 pm

Career Session with Catherine Sweetser

Career Session at 1:40 pm with David Tolbert

Career Session with David Tolbert

Transitional Justice in the 21st Century: Current Developments and Challenges, Thursday, September 20, 12:30 p.m., Room 4045

Transitional Justice in the 21st Century: Current Developments and Challenges

Humane: The Politics and Poetics of Endless War

Humane: The Politics and Poetics of Endless War

Lawyering for Racial Justice 12:30p

Lawyering for Racial Justice

Career Session 3/21

Career Session with Darius Charney

Career Session 3/8

Career Session with Macarena Sáez

Saez/Helfer Lecture 3/8/18

New Developments in LGBT Rights within the Inter-American System

Russia and Non-Compliance with European Court of Human Rights Lecture

Russia and Non-Compliance with European Court of Human Rights Judgments

Career Session 3/6

Career Session with Lauri Mälksoo

Gender and Transitional Justice: Challenges from the Field

Gender and Transitional Justice: Challenges from the Field

Career Session 2/28

Career Session with Kelli Muddell

The Future of the International Criminal Court

Complexity and Accountability: The Future of the International Criminal Court

Detention, Deportation & Death: America's Undocumented Immigrants Under Fire

Detention, Deportation & Death: America’s Undocumented Immigrants Under Fire

NCCIT lecture 1/23

The Truth About Rendition and Torture: An Inquiry in North Carolina

2017

Protecting Asylum-Seeking Women and Children Under Trump

Protecting Asylum-Seeking Women and Children Under Trump

Ending Medically Unnecessary Surgery on Intersex Children

Ending Medically Unnecessary Surgery on Intersex Children

Litigating LGBTIQ Rights: The Kenya Experience

Litigating LGBTIQ Rights–The Kenya Experience

Judith Kelley Lecture 9/27

Scorecard Diplomacy

Conversations in Human Rights

Governing Global Health: Is there a Role for Human Rights?

Vivanco Lecture 9/20

A Conversation with José Miguel Vivanco

Olivia Martin Lecture 3/28

Digital Security Training

What Countering Terrorism Financing Costs Gender Equality and Security

What Countering Terrorism Financing Costs Gender Equality and Security

The Zika Virus and Reproductive Health Rights

The Zika Virus and Reproductive Health Rights

Labor and Human Rights in the Trump Era, at Home and Abroad

Sareta Ashraph lecture 2/20

Genocide in Syria

Liberté, égalité, fraternité?: Human Rights Implications of France's State of Emergency

2016

Identifying and Managing Trauma, Loss and Resilience Lecture

Identifying and Managing Trauma, Loss, and Resilience

Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism in Tunisia

Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism in Tunisia

Shadows and Flows: Drones, Citizenship, and Forced Migration

Reproductive Rights Lecture

Reproductive Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy: From Helms to the U.N.

Steven Watt Lecture

Legal Challenges to the CIA Torture Program: Addressing the Role of Psychologists in Detention & Interrogations

Baumgartel Lecture 2/29

Europe's Refugee Crisis and the Rights of Migrants: What Role for Europe's Supranational Courts?

Security at What Cost? Lecture

Security at What Cost? The UN Security Council in the age of failed states and international terrorism

2015

Skrivankova Lecture 12/1

The European Refugee Crisis and Human Trafficking

Adam Brown Lecture

Identifying and Managing Trauma, Loss, and Resilience

Rebecca Hauser Lecture

A Survivor Remembers

Conversations in Human Rights

Beyond Trials and Truth Commissions: Responding to Violence in Africa

Litigation Against the U.N. for Cholera Outbreak in Haiti

Humanitarian Accountability: Litigation Against the U.N. for Cholera Outbreak in Haiti

Lenni Benson Lecture 10/20

Unaccompanied Minors from Central America and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status

"We Are Subjects of History"

So You Want To Be A... Human Rights Laywer

So You Want To Be A... Human Rights Lawyer

Dr. Brown Lecture 3/24

Identifying and Managing Trauma, Loss and Resilience

2014

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From Peacekeepers to Slave Traders: A Lawyer's Journey to the United Nations and Beyond

Ethics in International Arbitration

Ethics in International Arbitration

Juan Mendez

Commissioning Truths: The Field of Transitional Justice 30 Years after Nunca Más

Jeremy Heimans

Unlocking People Power: Human Rights and Movement-Building in the 21st Century

Identifying and Managing Trauma, Loss, and Resilience

Katherine Gallagher Event Poster

From the UN to the ICC: The Vatican’s Accountability for Sexual Violence Against Children